After matriculation, you will move or copy your portfolio from your SMC google account to a personal google account. Rather than linking to artifacts in your SMC Google Drive, you should download from Google Drive and upload to your ePortfolio site.
Your academic ePortfolio is a learning process — a way to make meaningful connections to your work throughout the time you are studying, creating assignments and projects as you work through your Master’s degree program. This cycle, or process, can be repeated within each entry as you revise your content, or across the ePortfolio. (This from San Francisco State University’s ePortfolio student process.)
Select
Reflect
Publish
Follow these tips to create an entry that will clearly communicate the content of your work or project to your audience.
Students retain ownership of their ePortfolio content and in creating ePortfolio content are indicating that the work they are displaying is their own and not deliberately copied or plagiarized from other individuals. Here are some resources and best practices:
Images can make your ePortfolio more dynamic and appealing to your audience. However, it is important to follow the academic integrity guidelines from above. If you are not using images that you own, it is important to use images responsibly and give proper attribution to the source. Below are some resources to help you use images in your ePortfolio.
There are many ways to find free open source images online to use in your ePortfolio. Some sites have a variety of photos that are free to use or modify, while others may cost money to use. Always be sure to read the website's requirements for copyright and usage before you use the photo. Here are a few sources that many students have found helpful:
See Google’s help site: Publish & Share your site.
While you cannot make individual entries public or private, you can limit viewers to only those in the SMC community, i.e., with an @stmarys-ca.edu email address.